h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

My next waypoint are DNA's 1094 units ... I never thought I would be able to pass him ... until that awful day in 2001

I raise my to DNA.

Jeremy

SETI gave me the same unit twice

The same unit twice? How do you know?

As far as I know, they try to have every unit crunched by more than one machine (increased redundancy). Anyhow, even if you coincidentally happen to get one and the same unit a second time, you'll be credited twice for it.

Jeremy

I got pop up message saying SETI I already done unit

they subtracted the double unit

That has never happened to me ...

Bad luck ...

That *has* happened to me.
I lost the unit.
Back in the days when it took me 60+ hours to complete one.

for pheloxi.

being kissed by Galaxy Angel '-)

I reached 500 units

well done!



And I am just about to be overtaken by JimiX

you poor thing...it sound brute

I think I'll be ok.

oh! good....

you are strong lady, you know!

... isn't that rather the other way 'round? You passed Jimi X just a few days ago, and if you don't ruin your PC, he won't get you ...

Eh?

Did I?

Hmmmmmmmm
not been keeping track very closely, have been more absorbed by celebdaq!

OK, then, JimiX


Am on my 897th unit atm......

2108 here... I wonder if I can get just 400 more before the end. I really would like the next certificate.

Any of you lot listed here?

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/user_list/userlist1.html

'Fraid not

me neither ...



but, hey, if we hadn't done hundreds and thousands of void units, those lucky ones would have had to do them and wouldn't have found their candidates!!

I mean, it's like sky archeology: you need hundreds of helping hands to dig away the tons of dirt before one lucky person can spot and find the grail ...

A wonderful philosophy Jeremy
I'm not on the list either, but I don't mind, at least they've found some candidtes, and that blows the entry rubbishing seti@home currently in PeerReview right out the water

I'm currently crunching unit # 899...

I read that article. It's fairly well written (from a "Entry-technical" point of view), but I still don't really like it.

I mean: Get out of the kitchen, if you can't stand the heat.

I would not like to say that SETI, with or without the @home, is a religion. It is a scientifically well based assumption that there is some propability that "we are not alone". If we can find others within our lifetime and with the means we have at hand... I don't now. But you have to start to dig if you want to find the grail.

Jeremy